Decarbonizing Existing Buildings Workshop

Once a transition plan is in place and a business case is established, transition planning shifts to project design and implementation.

The Decarbonizing Existing Buildings: Retrofit Design and Implementation Workshop is structured around practical applications, guiding practitioners through the steps of preparing and implementing deep carbon retrofits at the building level. It focuses on the process and considerations key to optimizing retrofit strategies to achieve targeted carbon, resilience, and performance outcomes. During this workshop, participants work through example scenarios and group discussions to identify retrofit project questions, cross-disciplinary impacts, system interactions, and challenge elimination. Activities further help practitioners think critically about how implementation choices influence whole-life carbon objectives and key steps to achieve performance verification and ongoing monitoring in alignment with Zero Carbon Building Standards requirements. The CAGBC Business Case for Retrofits Workbook, a practical workbook for building the business case, aligning stakeholders, and sequencing retrofit investments, is a complementary resource that will be provided and used during the course.